“Herd immunity,” i.e., a Malthusian Social Darwinist “strategy” (this is not, from a public health perspective, an actual or possible strategy) has become the de facto policy of the Trump administration for dealing with our nation’s share of the COVID-19 pandemic. As I’ve said before, this is criminal behavior of the highest order, a “crime against humanity” as that is defined in international criminal law.* It is the most conspicuous symptomatic evidence to date of the President’s psychopathy and sociopathy.
* For a concise introduction to crimes against humanity in international criminal law and justice, please see the entry in Antonio Cassese, editor-in-chief. The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press, 2009): 284-288. For foremost philosophical treatment of crimes against humanity, please see Larry May’s Crimes Against Humanity: A Normative Account (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
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